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Carol H Tucker
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just another Monday....
Today is the 2nd day of the 42nd week [just think, 4/5 of the year is gone!], the 16th day of the 10th month, the 289th day of 2017 [with 69 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Global Cat Day
- International Adjust Your Chair Day
- Multicultural Diversity Day
- National Boss Day
- National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day
- National Cut Up Your Credit Card Day
- National Department Store Day
- National Dictionary Day
- National Feral Cat Day
- National Learn a Word Day
- National Liquor Day
- Steve Jobs Day
- World Food Day
- World Spine Day
On this day: I am trying out a new format and only posting things that for one reason or another interests me.
In 1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. She was 38, and there seems to be some doubt whether or not she really said “let them eat cake” .
In 1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. The definitions don’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but I found out they're used in computer graphics and mechanics calculations to calculate movement and rotation
In 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered", as George Hull passes off a stone statue as a petrified man.
In 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. I will never forget the moment I fell in love with Disney – it was in the summer of 1986 on EPCOT’s Imagination ride.
In 1962 – the world came to and teetered on the brink of nucklear war as a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union known as the Cuban missile crisis [AKA the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare] began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
Quote of the day:
“I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.”
~ Elias Canetti, The Human Province
Why this quote? Because it speaks to me about goals. Because like so many folks, I am my own worse critic. I always find it interesting in a rather depressing and disturging way when I shut down because I don’t know what to say, and my body language and facial expression are taken to mean disapproval or judgement. I guess because I come across as garrulous at times when I am silent, folks read more into it? I don’t know. As I grow older, I find that I have a tendency to close down more and more, and that of coursse is a self-fulfilling activity because the more I stay alone the more I am alone, the more up-tight I am in company the more difficult I find it to relax. It is easy to concentrate on all the negatives and forget to give oneself credit for all the positives, neh?
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